Senior Indian Police Services officer Jasvir Singh, currently posted as ADG, has been put on suspension by the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government. It is noteworthy that earlier in 2002, Singh had booked Adityanath under National Security Act.
According to a report in the Rajasthan Patrika, the 1992-batch IPS officer known to be a strict policeman was suspended for his allegedly controversial interview given to Huffington Post. In the interview, Singh said that taking a stand and sticking is better than being a “career bureaucrat”, adding, “They want loyalty to political persons. This is totally unconstitutional. If we don’t resist, things won’t change. Resisting is the most rewarding thing especially when there is a big allurement.”
Singh, who was the Maharajganj Superintendent of Police in 2002 when he booked Adityanath under the NSA, said that he refused to withdraw his case for preventive detention against Adityanath despite pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party (at the Centre) and the Bahujan Samaj Party. Two days after that, Singh was transferred to the food cell of the Uttar Pradesh Police.
“There were several court cases and departmental inquiries against me, but a departmental inquiry seems a small thing,” he said in the interview, adding, “It’s easier than waking up and ploughing the fields at three in the morning.”
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